Sugar free Caramelised Roasted Nut Granola
Healthy fruit and nut granola to start your day
Ingredients
For dried ingredients
- 1 Cup Almonds not any flavours
- 1 Cup Cashews not any flavours
- 1 Cup Macadamia not any flavours
- ½ Cup Pepitas not any flavours
- ½ Cup Sunflower seeds not any flavours
- 2 Cups Coconut flakes
- 30 g Buckwheat or rice puffed
- 150 g Mixed dried fruit
For date paste
- 100 g Dates used pitted
- 100 g Hot water
- 100 g Peanut butter sugar or cream free and gluten free
- 80 g Virgin coconut oil
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Vanilla bean paste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 80 ℃.
For date paste
- Put dates into a bowl and add 100g of hot water soften them. (If seeds in dates, remove them)
- Meanwhile, weigh ingredients and melt coconut oil.
- Add the dates with hot water into a blender.
- Add peanut butter, coconut oil, vanilla bean paste, and salt to the blender and blend well. This will be your date paste.
For dried ingredients
- Using a large bowl, add almond, cashew nuts, macadamia nuts, pepitas, sunflower seeds, coconut flakes, and puffed buckwheat into the bowl. (Do not put dried fruits)
- Add the date paste into the bowl and mix well.
- Put the wet granola on trays. Flatten and spread evenly and removing any clumps.
- Put the granola into the oven and cook for 7-8 hours @ 80℃.
- After 7 hours, add mixed dried fruit and mix well. Break up any large clumps and let cool.
- After cooling the granola, put it in an airtight container.